The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-09-15
LET NO ONE TREsSPASS.
Ny Fricnda will not disturb this
place, Ny Encmies shall not.
: Sept, - yasS L-v C-lNroS.

sep, - Nt''N A''I tVINTON
Lien Clint '"r"l old man
plunkCt, " ,tr inches in his
stocking &C.,. years old,
and not or p. Er. flesh erbout
him. lie was north Ala
bama, and warn I areereu 10 back up what
he thought was right. Thar was lots or
disagrccments during Of tho war, and
more especially here in these noun
tains. Len didn't have nothing to do
with politics nor war for or long time, for
he warn't man to talk much, but it got
SO artcr awhile that IL warn't safe for no
body to travel Ground ermong these noun
tains for one side or the other was morn
apt to put or bullet into you when you
wurn't thinking erbout it. One day
Crlong in the latter part Of '63 Len was
over TO old man Burrows still, and while
ne was thar crbout fourteen er fifteen of
the bushwhacking gang come up. Thar
warnt none of these bushwackers that
hGulcrcd after any trouble with Len, so
they got Ground and talked and drank,
and drank and talked till erlong up in the
day crlong come old man Edwards boy
Sling TO mill with u turn of wheat. Old
Edwards was n terrible jeff Davis man,
and the hUshwh0ckcrs wGrnt ergwine to
l., him get any milling done If they could
help it. They stopped the hoy, and all Of
'rm COt out In the road Ground him, and
they Lad the little fellow scared to death,
and he commenced to beg 'em, but they
had their heads set on devilment and they
war bound to have trouble. One of 'em
cut the bag open and let the wheat run
ont ON tho ground, and one u 'em stuck
his knife in the OLD mare Just to see her
jump, and some of 'em said let's give the
boy u good whipping and send him back
to his old rebel dad, and it was no sooner
said than right to cutting switches they
went and the boy was crying and begging
and Len he'd sot thar on an old bench and
hadn't said nothing yet, but all of a sud-
den he grabbed his old gun and sprang
behind or tree and then he lowed:
THE first man that lays CT switch on
that boy, III git him.
1.-The bushwhackers got furious then
and grabbed thar guns and the captain of
the gang come down ercross the boy with
u switch, and as he did the cracks of Lens
gun was heerd and it settled that captain.
Lens gun cracked ergin and another of
:ho bushwhackers fell, and then they all
took to trees, for they knowed Len had
Two pistols with him and he was Just as
good with or pistol as he was with err gun.
rom that time on Len Clinton was looked
"n as er JEFF Davis man, and he had to
Keep his eye skunt according.
"In less than no time it was well known
that Len Clinton was great JEFF Davis
l"Nn, and he pretty soon was made captain
al his side, and thar war thirty or forty
fellows that didn't want no better fun
t'lan 10 follow Len TO recover stolen prop
vrty Ur To avcngo the wrongs committed
L., ht,el ,xx.l Nol.A .Ne t1NA Atl,n 40
In was Just beginning to git things
Strengthened out in his settlement so as a
fellow could sorter live, when in pops one
&C these here eonscript officers and tells
nina he must go to the war.
I've got crnough war right here in
these mountains said Len.
But the conscript officer he raised er
row and tried to make him go and he
couldn't, and he had to leave there faster
than he come, and he done mighty well to
set crway ut all.
lit waru't long after this till one night
Len he hecred horses feet, and he knowed
thar was trouble. He lit outen bed and
got fixed for or fight, and he blowed his
horn To call up help, and no knowed he'd
have help in er few minutes, and the
fellows what was Ground his house
RUuwCd II, too, so they let in to do what
they did do in mighty quick order. 1t
was the conscript officer that was there
crl"ng with or lot of cavelry that he'd
been over to Wedowee and got, and they
war gwine 10 take Len dead or erlivc.
They didn't take him though, but they
heat down that front door Wonder and
fired right into the house, and the balls
killed two sweet little girls of Lens, and
by this time Lens crowd was in hearing
and their horses hoofs could be heerd, so
the cavalry and the conscript officer fairly
Few away from here and outen these
mountains, Lens two little girls were
killed and they are buried right down
yundcr 10y that tree, and there is er block
cut outen the tree and piece of plank is
lit into il that has the names of all that
cavalry crowd on it, and Len he knelt
down by his little girls that night when
they were killed, and he raised his hand
to heaven and swore that he would kill
every man that was in the crowd, or he'd
lose his own life in the attempt.
"1har are eighteen names on that piece
of plank down yonder by them graves,
and every one of EN- have got Y opposite
but one, which is or sign that they have
been killed. They have all been killed
but one, and he was the captain and the
very main one that Len wanted to kill,
for he heerd him give the order fire."
"Len had only one child left; she was
er baby, just twelve months old, and it
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at home and his wife couldn't stay, so she
took the little babe and started to 60 over
into Georgia somewhere to some of her
kin. She took the train at West Point
aud vent up to Atlanta, and tar she took
the train TO go to GAINESVILLE. 1t was a
long train loaded with soldiers. and she
was the only woman ON the whole train
and that little babe was the only babe on
tse s5.sssiiss fsssiIt ,t, CT
seat by the stove that they keep on trains,
though thar warn't no fire, because it was
summer, and the little babe was sitting
right down on the floor playing, and
everything was running erlong smoothly,
when all of er sudden thar was er train
come meeting us and everything was tore
all to pieces. Everybody in that box was
badly hurt or killed, and Lens wife was
killed, and she had nothing erbout her to
tell who she was or whar she was from.
The Yankee prisoners that were aboard
the train on their way to Andersonville
dug into the dead and the wounded, and
Thar was the mother, the only woman ON